MARIA FORDE DISCOGRAPHY

MARIA FORDE SOLO

'Maria Forde Solo' is a recording my listeners have been requesting for years – 'We just want to hear you singing without lots of backing... it's your voice we want to hear'. This recording has given me the opportunity to sing songs as you may hear them at one of my solo concerts. It is also an opportunity to re-visit some of my most requested songs, introduce you to some new ones, and indulge in a few of my personal favourites. True, there are 'live' moments with a few stray notes, but I hope that you get the spirit and sincerity of my storytelling – and the raw emotion behind every word.

Maria Forde is a fine singer and a gifted songwriter. Like all good songwriters her lyrics often reflect an understanding of, and compassion for the human condition, with all it's triumphs and disasters, all it's bright peaks and dark corners........at her live performances she presents her songs with sincerity, passion and more than a dash of humour, and these very human attributes, along with her fine singing voice, is why she invariably establishes such a seemingly effortless rapport with her audiences....  ERIC BOGLE , MAY 2011

LITTLE BLACK ROSE

This is Maria's 6th album and certainly her most ambitious. Her songwriting skills, which have seen her material covered internationally as well as becoming near 'standards' in Australia, are as evident as ever. The great leap forward has been in her singing, where she has pushed herself to realize her ambition of a singer that writes, rather than a writer who sings. Musically the combination of a modern classical string quartet (The Silo String Quartet), Roots guitarist (Jimbo Mathus), and Latin percussion have all but seen her create her own genre on this recording. John Durr, Black Market Music

SONG LIST:

1. Rainy Day in Trentham
2. Broken Wings
3. Now is all we have
4. Rockababy Bye
5. Walk With Me
6. Red Earth
7. My Sweet Forget Me not
8. May the Moon
9. My Beautiful Roísin
10. Can You Hear Me?
11. Soft Place to Fall

NEXT 

SONG LIST:

1. Patterson's Curse
2. Strong Wind Blowing 
3. Beyond the Blue
4. Forever Young 
5. Leaving the Land
6. When I Love you is not enough
7. Sooner or Later
8. A Question Find
9. Freight Train
10. Lighten my Load
11. Over You
12. Forever Mine
13. Wait For Me

ROUGH DIAMOND

SONG LIST:

1. Old Country Mile
2. Daughter of Aran
3. Lost in the Feeling
4. Down Letterfrack Way
5. Rough Diamond
6. My Youngest Son Came Home Today
7. Hold me in your Arms
8. I'll be Seeing You
9. Rainbow to my heart
10. The Ballad of Kylemore
11. My Lagan Love
12. Run Mary
13. In the Palm of his Hand
14. Oíche Mhaith an - Athaír (Good Night Father)

FOLLOW THE CALL

SONG LIST:

1. Ride on 
2. We need love
3. Always the Same
4. My Love is in America
5. Follow the Call
6. When you are Old
7. Maybe
8. Falling
9. Drink Talking
10. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
11. The Voyage
12. Moonlight Head
13. Fragile Heart
14. Love Has many Faces
15. Laudate

DARK ISLAND

SONG LIST:

1. Faces in the Photograph
2. Running
3. My Heart Aint at home
4. Lilies of the Field
5. May God Bless You
6. Whose to Blame?
7. To Your Door
8. Fly Away
9. All of me
10. Outstretched Arms
11. From the Heart
12. Til the End of Time (Featuring Finbar Furey)
13. Dark Island (Featuring Finbar Furey)

WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME?

SONG LIST:

1. Waltzing Matilda My Darling
2. Child Within Me
3. Will You Dance with Me?
4. Carrick Fergus
5. Perfect Poverty
6. Mo Chara Dhíl  (My Dear Friend)
7. The Water is Wide
8. Amazing Grace
9. The Last Leviathan

MARIA FORDE SONGBOOK

SONG BOOK (Includes words, sheet music and guitar tabs):

1. Will You Dance With Me?
2. Mo Chara Dhíl(My Dear Friend)
3. My Heart Aint At Home
4. May God Bless You
5. Fly Away
6. Rainbow to My heart
7. There's a Light
8. Lilies of the Field
9. Outstretched Arms
10. In the Palm of his Hands
11. Oíche Mhaith an - Athaír (Good Night Father)
12. Til the End of Time